oasisbob

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721.
by oasisbob 9y ago
I think "maker"/DIY go hand in hand - and are probably most useful as umbrella terms for people who genuinely enjoy tinkering and enjoy experiencing learning and experimenting with new physical skills. So, yeah, "DIY din
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by oasisbob 9y ago
For true lab notebooks pencil is unacceptable because of their erasability, not longetivity. A formal lab notebook is used in such a way to provide a nearly immutable record. That's why corrections are done with a single line, blank sp
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Two other theories: - Firmware is running SSL which doesn't support SHA-256, and a SHA-1 cert is expiring soon. - Device (or other devices it communicates with) rely on cert pinning back to Symantec owned roots, and will somehow be aff
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Agree that it's going to be harder to predict, and probably dependent on the individual. When it comes to commuting in the Pacific Northwest, for most of the year an extra half-hour of available daylight at the end (or start) of the da
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by oasisbob 9y ago
For many years there was a site called the Internet Health Report which would show packet loss and problems between multiple carriers. It was pretty useful until Dynatrace deep-sixed it this year. I haven't found a suitable replacement
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Lots of similar reports on the outages mailing list: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2017-November/0108... "Anyone having packet loss, please send traceroutes to the list. There is clearly som
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Eventually you're going to run into RF limits, especially if the signal is coming in over the air. You're sure this is engineering laziness? How much extra would you pay for a TV with faster channel changing?
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Some TVs including Samsungs have dual tuners. However, even if the read-ahead tuner was perfectly predictive you'd still need to flip through channels fairly slowly, otherwise you'll outrun it - about a second a channel.
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Yes, the MPEG-2 decoder in your TV needs to be fast enough to keep up with the transmitted data rate, but that doesn't mean that it has instantaneous stream startup times. Your TV doesn't have the information it needs to start dis
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Having differential engine control isn't too surprising - it's just another way to maintain a course in addition to the rudder. Jetliners have gangable throttle controls for their engines, albeit with what is probably a much bette
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Within a building envelope, if you have water or termite ingress you're already hosed and a layer of paint or gypsum isn't going to save you. The cross-laminated timbers aren't going to be the first thing to rot. In a traditi
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Sounds pretty unbelievable, maybe because it's not true? The line I remember is that the airport light rail station isn't connected directly to the terminal because of budgetary constraints and uncertainty in airport expansion pla
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Interestingly, some states don't require signs - purple paint will do. http://ijr.com/2016/02/535003-purple-paint-texas/
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Not embedded in Obama's 2012 campaign either.
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Yeah, without the alliance stating what methods were used to look for attacks, its hard to take that seriously... it's the same line used in just about any security breach. Is this attack likely to generate log evidence on affected APs
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by oasisbob 9y ago
... and when you get bored of Option-clicking, give Shift-Option clicking a try. Pulls up even more debug choices in Wifi/Bluetooth among others.
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by oasisbob 9y ago
re PTR reverse lookups - mail servers probably do it the most? That and administration / network management tools.
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Comparing the 1/4"-20 tripod mount to the 1/8" TRRS jack isn't a great comparison. The tripod mount has been a standard for decades and decades. The phone headphone jack fractured into competing standards years ago.
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Indeed! And in a lot of the rural west, there are places where visible signage is driven by the fire department, eg: http://bendruralfire.com/Content/Details/5
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by oasisbob 9y ago
> For a long time, it was considered best-practice to blanket-block ICMP I agree with your point, but think this needs some clarification about who considered it a best practice - among enterprise firewall admins and financial-industry c
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Instead of barking the names of logical fallacies at people, perhaps consider why the auto insurance industry employs scores of actuaries and takes driver history into account so heavily.
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by oasisbob 9y ago
He may have been referring to a non-direct flight with an Atlantic route? eg, going Seattle to Chennai will be ~24 hours of travel either via Frankfurt or Dubai. Thinking of the magic of flight in broad strokes, I can see how you'd cal
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by oasisbob 9y ago
> Most frequently counterfeited (like Jewelry) or otherwise problematic/hazardous categories are 'category gated' and require you to submit a bunch of documentation to sell in it. I find it surprising that Amazon doesn&#x2
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Are you sure that's called a pin vise? I thought a pin vise was just a collet on a handle. (I.e. think a drill which made a baby with a screwdriver.)
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Buying any PPE from Amazon is probably a bad idea. Counterfeit or not, the barrier to entry is just too low. eg, there are specialized climbing harnesses on Amazon which confuse the CE EN standard and the concept of notified bodies. (Which
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by oasisbob 9y ago
I ended up with a strip from colordiode, they're available on ebay. Was described as CRI>95 3000~3200K SMD2835, 90/m. Came with a pretty decent datasheet, seemed well-characterized. Cost was ~ $10/meter. They were responsi
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Agreed! It took several tries to get LEDs which worked well for vanity (i.e. Mirror) lighting. I thought it was a simple matter of color temperature - so wrong! High CRI strip LED arrays are surprisingly hard to find. The end result was wor
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Things like this are being tried. SeaTac airport has a taxiway which is large, parallel, and frequently (enough) mistaken for a runway. > SEA-TAC personnel have been very proactive in trying to reduce the problem, including the installat
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Swinging wild-ass guess - it might because it makes it easier to damp the equipment against vibrations. The STM in a surface chemistry lab I worked in for a while was inside a box, and hanging from the roof of the box. By choosing appropria
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by oasisbob 9y ago
Found a good summary of imbalance cash-out prices: https://www.elexon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Imbalanc... The basics seems simple enough - the system was long (too much supply) during this peri

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